tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46393190351305675212018-05-23T20:45:30.033-11:00CookieMasterSneak peek into the heart of a student traveler&#39;s thought process. Experience the blindteddybear; observe Europe &amp; England from a fresh new perspectiveRavi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-2427369570154674922012-11-02T04:05:00.001-11:002012-11-02T04:11:02.390-11:009 things that are damaging your brain and you did not even know about<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LeCr7Xy9LJA/UJPg7-vuTQI/AAAAAAAABcw/ONU2JiWpvOg/s1600/How+to+improve+brain+power.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="How to improve your brain power, Improve your brain" border="0" height="258" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LeCr7Xy9LJA/UJPg7-vuTQI/AAAAAAAABcw/ONU2JiWpvOg/s400/How+to+improve+brain+power.jpg" title="How to improve your brain power" width="470" /></a></div><br />Ever wondered what our brain needs and what it can benefit from? These are a few things that I do or people close to me do which has caused them (or is causing them) permanent brain damage. I am not implying that I have unintelligent friends - just that I know, now, the reason(s) why they act .. for act of better word .. 'brainless'<br /><a name='more'></a><br /><b>Eating Habit 1 - Eating a lot (Too much?)</b><br />Some say, oh yeah, mmmm chinese buffet for £5 - I am going to destroy them! EAT THEM ALL LADS! (Alec, I am not talking about you) Remember walking into a little place in China Town and walking out an hour late, barely able to move? Barely having room for a pint? The fact is, over eating causes the hardening of brain arteries that results in a decreasing mental power. That’s why you might notice that you simply cannot remember where O'Neals is when it is actually right across the road. Some are not able concentrate well on a puzzle after eating a lot of beef. True story.<br /><br /><b>Eating Habit 2 - Skipping Breakfast or No Breakfast at all.</b><br />Let us examine the other spectrum. Yesterday a friend of mine (Sabu Chacko) told me that he normally skips breakfast and eats something at 11AM instead. A common observation among people who don't take breakfast is that they exhibit lower blood sugar level. Now, you don't have to be a Heather Lewis to know that it is quite bad. A friend of mine who claims to know a few things (No Claire, I am not talking about you) said that it might lead to insufficient nutrients reaching the brain causing brain degeneration. (say whaat?)<br /><br /><b>Eating Habit 3 - High sugar consumption (yep,I'm guilt-tripping you on that chocolate bar you are holding)</b><br />I've heard this line so much "Yeah boii, mama needs her sugar". <br /><br />Don't young women (or rather women in late twenties/early thirties know that too much of anything is unhealthy? Having a high sugar count interrupts the absorption of proteins and nutrients ------ and what that means --&gt; malnutrition. This apparently interferes with brain development. The Doctor in my Golders Green GP said that it is not advisable, particularly for children to indulge in sweets. I am not a child (anymore) so I thought it was OK - but apparently not. It is bad. -sadface-<br /><br />&nbsp;<b>Sleep Habit 1 - Lack of sleep or Sleep deprivation</b><br />I love to sleep. I think Isabell told me that if she had a chance she would sleep all day. So, I really don't understand why some people can't wait. If it is caused by anxiety/stress/tension, figure out a way to forget it before you sleep. For brain-resting, sleep is extremely essential. It allows our brain to rest from all the "hard work" (Amanda Hunter does not know what I mean) done in all day. Long term deprivation from sleep accelerates the death of brain cells - so, yes, sleep my darlings.<br /><br /><b>Sleep Habit 2 - Head covered while sleeping</b><br />Now, why would you do that? You are grown up to know that there are no monsters under the bed! <br /><br />Sleeping with your head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide inside the blanket and yes, you guessed it right - it does decrease the concentration of oxygen which ends up in brain damaging effects. I wonder if this is what has caused Tal Etzyon brain damage in Tel Aviv.<br /><br /><b>Things you can't do anything about 1 - Air pollution</b><br />Simple --&gt; The less, the concentration of oxygen in the air around you is - the less the provision for oxygen that brain gets (and needs) ------ brings about a decrease in brain potency.<br /><br /><b>Things you can't do anything about 2 - Working your brain when you are sick</b><br />Remember when you did that? Or HAD to do that to turn in an assignment or to meet that deadline. You are not only tiring yourself but also killing a bit of your brain in the process. OK -- you don't destroy the brain, but a few cells die (not as much as a cigarette or beer but yeah dudes -- it hard work kills. Please remember that every time you are working hard or studying while being sick ends up being less effective at work and also experience lower brain effctiveness and conjointly brings brain damage.<br /><br /><b>Things you can't do anything about 3 -&nbsp; Lacking in stimulating thoughts</b><br />What is the best way to train your brain and improve development?<br />a. Thinking<br />b. Drinking beer<br />c. Smoking<br />d. All the options are rubbish - I only have one option to choose now (well now, I have two).<br /><br />As you can imagine, just thinking about the puzzle above has made your brain better. :)<br />Thank me later.<br /><br /><b>Bad Habit 1 - Smoking </b><br />Errm. Smoking is bad.<br /><br /><b>Bad Habit 2 - Not talking enough</b><br />Healthy intellectual conversations promote the potency of the brain (Thomas Whittam, not the non-sensical way you blab all day). Anyway, ladies, talk to nerds and geeks. :) <br /><i>P.S: I am not promoting any other activity besides talking.</i></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com124tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-60480769630171800512012-07-26T05:41:00.001-11:002012-07-26T05:44:18.098-11:00Twitter down - how often can you see this?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Just when you think that Twitter is the best real time news provide - this happens.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CZtZWJF3IDw/UBFzCXBHSPI/AAAAAAAABWs/xyq3W60UkYA/s1600/Twitter+down+-+message.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Twitter currently down,Twitter down, Twitter warning message, Twitter server failure, Twitter failure" border="0" height="372" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CZtZWJF3IDw/UBFzCXBHSPI/AAAAAAAABWs/xyq3W60UkYA/s640/Twitter+down+-+message.png" title="Twitter down message" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Twitter currently down</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />This screenshot was taken minutes ago. Now, a lot of people think only Google can handle the kind of load that is required - hence advocating for Twitter to be purchased by Google.<br /><br />I leave it up to you to make up your mind</div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-41419489916117598902012-03-16T04:20:00.000-11:002012-03-16T04:20:42.699-11:00Three reasons to NOT use SiteGround - Review as a customer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">So, we have been using SiteGround for web hosting. There were several issues that came up during hosting - but most of them were quickly resolved by the technical support. What went unnoticed that the issue resolutions were not permanent fixes but were 'patches'.<br /><br />Anyway, two days, I realised that I am not assured an FTP slot to Siteground at all times! I do have a shared server but still, I do not think it is fair to me that I am denied FTP access to my server at any point in time.<br /><br />The explanation given to me involved talking about number of possible connections and perhaps SiteGround increasing the limit of users -- should it concern me how Siteground manages issues internally? I mean, I have my stuff to take care&nbsp; -- I do not need to worry about things that should be working normally!<br /><br />To be fair, I was quite happy with a LOT of things that SiteGround tech support team did.<br />Tech Support Review:<br />1) Fast response time - Awesome<br />2) Helpful responses - Awesome<br />3) More than one person handling your request (at times) which means you need to explain your issue again because there is a good chance that the third developer (perhaps in the next shift) does not know what transpired before - VERY BAD.<br />4) Supervisors try to not say things straight up when they know they are mistaken. (This could be a personal observation)<br /><br />Anyway, the sales team at SiteGround should make it abundantly clear that when a customer signs up to use semi-dedicated hosting services, it does not mean that we are able to connect to the server using FTP at all times. When we are able to connect, it cannot be assured that connections wont drop (given that you are not inactive). However, from observation - I have seen that once I am connected to the server, I am normally able to stay in without a problem.<br /><br /><br />Conclusion: Be careful of what you are getting into when you begin using SiteGround as your hosting service provider. Their lack of<br />1) Transparency and inability to give straight answers<br />2) Resources to ensure seamless functioning and<br />3) Servers not doing 99% availability. (I have reported several times when our blogging platform was not available - this was reported by customers -- imagine how embarassing it is for a new start-up?)<br /><br />I have not decided who I am going to approach but I will move out of SiteGround's services very soon.</div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-48175297488758046332012-03-06T06:34:00.002-11:002012-03-06T06:36:36.710-11:005 tips on how to engage customers using social media marketing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Have you decided to jump on the social media bandwagon (good for you) ? Do you find yourself complaining that no one comments on our posts, no one shares your updates or re-tweets your tweets, etc.&nbsp; Without any interaction or payoff, it is normal to begin to wonder if social media is really worth the effort.<br /><br />What’s lacking is ‘customer engagement’.&nbsp; Without customer engagement, social media becomes tiresome and boring. Over time, people will stop paying attention. <br /><br /><b>Question: How do you stimulate engagement?</b><br />If you're a small business, before you throw in the towel, I’d like to encourage you read the following engagement suggestions and test them out with your social media audiences.<br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><b>1) Is it all about You or them?</b><br />One potential reason could be that you are not tweeting or posting items that are of interest to their audience. It could be all about the business or the product and not about adding value.<br /><br />The rule is to add value by sharing information that enlightens, educates, informs, shares and updates your audience.&nbsp; Twenty percent (20%) or less of the posts and tweets can promote your business, products, store, but with care and not like a used car sales man.&nbsp; <br /><br /><b>2) Remember, social media is about building online buddies. Take time to Buddy-up</b><br />Speaking of buddies, perhaps you are not taking the time to really make buddies with their fans, followers, connections.<br /><br />What do I mean?&nbsp; Going beyond just thanking someone for joining your social community.&nbsp; In addition, visit their profile or website.&nbsp; See if you can find anything of interest to share with others in your network.&nbsp; Talk directly to them through the direct messaging tools that are available and become true buddies in the same way you would talk face-to-face if they were in your store or place of business. You certainly can’t do this with everyone in your social media community, but you can cherry-pick those who are already the most engaged.&nbsp; <br /><br />Start there and span out.<br /><br /><b>3) What do you want them to do?</b><br />Another factor that leads to a lack of engagement is there are few, if any, calls to action.&nbsp; If you want your social media community&nbsp; to take action, explain what you would like them to do, how to do it and give them a reason to do it.<br /><br />Want your updates shared or re-tweeted? Ask them to do just that and explain why. You might be pleasantly surprised.<br /><br /><b>4) Ask first. Then deliver.</b><br />Few small businesses are asking members of their social media communities what they would like to know or learn about.&nbsp; Instead, assumptions are made as to what folks want to hear about.<br /><br />Ask and then respond.<br /><br /><b>5) Get them talking to each other</b><br />Create opportunities for them to interact with one another.&nbsp; This could be some sort of collaboration or perhaps they could join forces to select a new product, a new color, etc.&nbsp; Offer contests rather than discounts.&nbsp; Get them hyped about some happening or cause.<br /><br />Stir the pot with something controversial and get them to share their points of view.<br /><br />If this has helped you think, share it with others so that they can increase their following and increase their audience. <br /><br /></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-75570281867433660452012-02-20T14:59:00.006-11:002012-02-22T14:07:50.987-11:00Fading away into the night<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />While London may have many beating hearts, Camden beats harder and faster than most, and it never stops beating. By day the markets are crawling with shoppers hunting for that one of a kind accessory, eager shouts follow you from market kitchens of all cuisines, tempting you to taste there fare, while the clinking of a hammers from the traditional craftsmen beat a rhythm.<br /><div><br /></div><div>But when the shopping is over, Camden keeps it's tune. The dance floors carry on the rhythm into the night, and with the hallmark of Camden being endless variety, you're sure to find something to your tastes. And if your tastes are more inclined to the traditional British pub, then however many you fall in love with, there are always more to be discovered.</div><div><br /></div><div>Like the Canal that curves it's way amongst the markets and clubs, the rhythm of Camden never stops flowing, and it's hard for any that hear it to resist joining in the dance.</div><div></div><div><br />As day fades into the night, I find myself leaving the weight of my shadows on the bridge over the canal and reaching out to join the spirit of Camden.</div><div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mymzone.com/images/my-shadow-fading-into-the-night.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://mymzone.com/images/day-fading-into-night.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Day or Night, London is the place to be in 2012</td></tr></tbody></table><div></div><div></div><div>Visit London in 2012 and take a bit of the magic back home with you. <br /><br /></div>The components of this picture were taken over 3 days and at the end of composite combining 64 image slices, the spirit of Camden has been captured along with why any traveller would absolutely enjoy the 6 markets during the day and at the same time have a smashing time at night.</div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-22341307798539813582012-02-19T07:38:00.001-11:002012-02-19T07:41:46.022-11:00Traditional markets in London<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="MsoNormal">What is the deal with traditional markets in London?&nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fact</b> - Traditional markets are the oldest form of exchange – and are not just a key part of the British heritage. Successful markets deliver many diverse benefits to local towns and communities and while economic benefits are perhaps the most obvious, the social value of markets and the community cohesion they encourage are equally important. Markets can also help regenerate town centres, promote healthy eating and support 'greener' lifestyles and more sustainable patterns of commerce.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowFullScreen='true' webkitallowfullscreen='true' mozallowfullscreen='true' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/1NDnP6-MDIo?feature=player_embedded' FRAMEBORDER='0' /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">In 2009, The Telegraph reported that 'Despite the substantial success of farmers' markets, the majority of the country's estimated 3,000 markets are in decline, the report found, because of poor planning decisions by local councils which have allowed supermarkets too much power.' This may be true in the case of open markets because shoppers, in the age of the internet, are no longer prepared to put up with poor British weather when they can buy their groceries from super markets and their products online.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">It is true that some markets in London have become a shadow of their former lively, bustling selves. For example:</div><div class="MsoNormal">1) Portobello market in West London, popular with tourists, has witnessed the number of stalls fall from 212 to 180 in the last five years.</div><div class="MsoNormal">2) Roman Road Market in Bow London, which in the sixties was a large bustling market with a great selection of stalls, attracting people from a reasonable area, and now consists of a very few and down-at-heel that no one would travel to visit.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The local merchants have an opportunity now to take their stores online so that they increase their chances of being more discoverable and visible to patrona - more importantly, fans from anywhere in the world can now see them, get to know them and enjoy their products - in some sense support small businesses that continue to produce unique and handmade products. myMzone is a online portal which allows this to happen by letting local merchants from traditional markets have an online store where they can showcase themselves and their products.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">At the moment, london's <a href="https://mymzone.com/camden-town.html">Camden Market</a>, Portobello Market and Spitalfields market have been covered by <a href="https://mymzone.com/">myMzone</a> while there are interests coming from other geographies like New York, Glasgow and Uganda. The exciting fun fact of all of this, you could have an item from a market in Jerusalem in your cart along with an Alpaca wool item from South America in addition to a handcrafted ear ring from Central Africa.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">How exciting is it? If you share the enthusiasm, be sure to offer your comments on the <a href="https://mymzone.com/blog">blogging</a>&nbsp; platform - perhaps by the end of 2012, traditional markets in London won't have a problem anymore.</div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com4London Borough of Camden, Greater London, UK51.541878671941205 -0.1427678784179988751.511715171941205 -0.19684337841799887 51.572042171941206 -0.088692378417998874tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-39846295125261202132012-02-01T01:22:00.000-11:002012-02-01T01:22:10.814-11:00What is Smishing and how to stay protected?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: red;">What&nbsp;is&nbsp;Smishing?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Smishing&nbsp;is&nbsp;a form of phishing attack, combination of&nbsp;<strong>SMS&nbsp;</strong>and&nbsp;<strong>phishing&nbsp;</strong>as the mode of fraud&nbsp;is&nbsp;the Short Messaging Service (SMS) in this case. Also known as SMS Phishing (SMiShing)&nbsp;is&nbsp;the social engineering scam which the attackers use&nbsp;to&nbsp;attract the users.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: red;">How&nbsp;does it work?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Any user can receive a SMS from the attacker stating that his/her account&nbsp;is&nbsp;suspended&nbsp;and&nbsp;needs a payment of some amount instantly, if he doesn’t reply soon the payment will be deducted. The SMS have either the number&nbsp;to&nbsp;call back which&nbsp;is&nbsp;powered by the Interactive Voice Response system (IVR)to&nbsp;show the genuineness or have some URL listed which&nbsp;is&nbsp;some genuine looking&nbsp;<strong>fake URL</strong>.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The hackers will then ask for your&nbsp;<strong>credit card</strong>&nbsp;info, or other personal info&nbsp;and&nbsp;create a duplicate card for the same. After they have captured your information, you are sure&nbsp;to&nbsp;lose your money. The SMS have no number of the sender as it&nbsp;is&nbsp;usually sent using computer or email service, making it hard&nbsp;tocatch them.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: red;">How&nbsp;to&nbsp;stay&nbsp;protected&nbsp;from Smishing?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The only method&nbsp;to&nbsp;stay&nbsp;safe from smishing&nbsp;is&nbsp;by staying attentive&nbsp;and&nbsp;never ever replying&nbsp;to&nbsp;the unknown calls (<strong>vishing</strong>) or messages (<strong>smishing</strong>). Your security&nbsp;is&nbsp;in your hands, unless you reveal your information, no one can find it&nbsp;and&nbsp;remember genuine organizations like Banks will never ask your private info as they already have it.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In case you are in doubt, then open the webpage directly only, never click on the URL or links provided&nbsp;to&nbsp;you via email or texts as they will redirect&nbsp;to&nbsp;some similar looking website which will hack your details.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Courtesy: QbOhayo</div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-44336828484236458972012-02-01T01:21:00.002-11:002012-02-01T01:21:20.883-11:00What is Vishing and how to stay protected?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Vishing,&nbsp;is&nbsp;also one of the types of&nbsp;<strong>Phishing&nbsp;</strong>attacks made using the practice of social engineering over the telephone system.&nbsp;<strong>Vishing</strong>, too follows the same principle of fooling people&nbsp;and&nbsp;gaining their important details like PIN&nbsp;and&nbsp;bank information.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Vishing&nbsp;is&nbsp;the combination of the terms “<strong>Voice</strong>”&nbsp;and&nbsp;“<strong>Phishing</strong>” as it incorporates the use of voice for phishing people.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: red;">How&nbsp;does it work?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The attackers call the people with some prior information about them&nbsp;and&nbsp;act&nbsp;to&nbsp;be some official people from some organization, thereby asking for your other personal information. The little information that they have like your birth date etc&nbsp;is&nbsp;enough&nbsp;to&nbsp;break your trust&nbsp;and&nbsp;fool you, as the users feel that they are some officials only.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">If the user gets caught in their web, then they asks them for their personal information like&nbsp;<strong>bank</strong>account number, PIN etc&nbsp;and&nbsp;may also provide you some fake webpage asking you&nbsp;to&nbsp;pay certain amount&nbsp;to&nbsp;keep your account running. The attackers call from some number that&nbsp;is&nbsp;not easy&nbsp;to&nbsp;detect even from the Caller ID facility.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: red;">How&nbsp;to&nbsp;stay&nbsp;protected?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Well, since this&nbsp;<strong>fraud&nbsp;</strong>happens over phone there&nbsp;is&nbsp;no software that can help you,&nbsp;and&nbsp;you will haveto&nbsp;keep yourself safe by yourself.&nbsp;Stay&nbsp;cautious if you receive any call from an unknown number, or from someone asking your private information whether or not they claim&nbsp;to&nbsp;belong from some organization.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">If you are having some doubt about the identity of the caller, then you should call the official number of the organization from the statements/bill etc but not the number provided by them.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Courtesy: QbOhayo</div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-85638605309021905572012-01-24T23:43:00.004-11:002012-01-24T23:44:56.742-11:00Just because you do not see it does not mean it is not there<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Believe!</span></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Da13fEaCFf4/Tx_cJYBPhlI/AAAAAAAABSg/_lOLTFvzQps/s1600/Just%2Bbecause.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Just because you do not see it does not mean it is not there, believe, child holding the sea up, garbage problem, pollution, save the earth" border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Da13fEaCFf4/Tx_cJYBPhlI/AAAAAAAABSg/_lOLTFvzQps/s400/Just%2Bbecause.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just because you do not see it does not mean it is not there</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com4London, UK51.508129 -0.1280050000000301251.3644275 -0.37787450000003009 51.651830499999996 0.12186449999996987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-46853565610411077472011-12-16T00:41:00.001-11:002011-12-16T01:08:50.594-11:00Christmas shopping in Camden Town<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Are you as excited as I am this Christmas? London packs a lot of fun and frolic on the period leading up to Christmas break. It should be a lot of fun meeting friends and buying presents for the Christmas tree.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_970026026" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="252" alt="MyMzone, Christmas shopping, unique, handmade, Camden Town, Camden Market, Boxing shopping, Rudolph and friends" src="https://mymzone.com/images/backup/LCHMS0000203.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mymzone.com/">Rudolph and friends</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />This year, I have decided to support small businesses by going online to MyMzone and purchasing unique and handmade products from Traditional markets in London like Camden Town.<br /><br />The reason is this: TFL has announced that the TFL employees are going on a strike for 60 hours starting Dec 24 8PM until Dec 26. This means that traveling in London will be cumbersome during Christmas and Boxing day holidays.<br /><br />For this reason, I will do my purchases online this Christmas on <a href="https://mymzone.com/">MyMzone</a>! =) </div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-10769716568875289192011-11-30T12:13:00.000-11:002011-11-30T12:13:26.499-11:00MyMzone adventurerI came across this really promising cool little character called Matt Brady at MyMzone's blog today. Thought it would be nice to share the story with everyone. MyMzone is a community based project working with local merchants in Camden Town, London and have a blog all about Camden Town, Camden Market and the small businesses based in Camden Town. Anyway, this is the URL: https://mymzone.com/blog/meet-matt-3/Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-85394704382747954342011-09-28T03:07:00.001-11:002011-09-28T03:08:46.702-11:00Two women talking in heaven<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">1st woman: Hi! My name is Wanda.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2nd woman: Hi! I'm Sylvia. How'd you die?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">1st woman: I froze to death.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2nd woman: How horrible!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">1st woman: It wasn't so bad. After I quit shaking from the cold, I began to get warm &amp; sleepy, and finally died a peaceful death. What about you?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2nd woman: I died of a massive heart attack. I suspected that my husband was cheating, so I came home early to catch him in the act.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But instead, I found him all by himself in the den watching TV.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">1st woman: So, what happened?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2nd woman: I was so sure there was another woman there somewhere that I started running all over the house looking.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I ran up into the attic and searched,and down into the basement. Then I went through every closet and checked under all the beds.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I kept this up until I had looked everywhere, and finally I became so exhausted that I just keeled over with a heart attack and died.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">1st woman: Too bad you didn't look in the freezer---we'd both still be alive.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">PRICELESS! </div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-27860784265126010232011-09-21T22:07:00.000-11:002011-09-21T22:07:30.336-11:00Colplay fanclub pre-sale tickets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="newsstory"><br />There will be a special ticket pre-sale for Coldplay online fans for each of the shows. To access it, click the links below at the date/time stated and enter the code MYLOXYLOTIX. The general sale will begin on Friday morning for all shows. <br /><br />3 December - Glasgow, SECC<br />Pre-sale, 9.30am (UK time) on 22 Sept <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/promo/yrf8d7" target="_blank">from here</a><br />General sale, 9.30am (UK time) on 23 Sept <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/" target="_blank">from here</a><br />Ticket prices: £47.50/£55/£65*<br /><br />4 December - Manchester, MEN Arena<br />Pre-sale, 9.30am (UK time) on 22 Sept <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/promo/yrf8d7" target="_blank">from here</a><br />General sale, 9.30am (UK time) on 23 Sept <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/" target="_blank">from here</a><br />Ticket prices: £47.50/£55/£65*<br /><br />9 December - London, O2 Arena<br />Pre-sale, 9.30am (UK time) on 22 Sept <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/promo/yrf8d7" target="_blank">from here</a></span></span></div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-17648982739144477532011-07-11T21:40:00.000-11:002011-07-11T21:40:58.838-11:00Tough interview question - Search Company<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bis-confidencecoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/interview-kentoh-canstock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="How to answer tough interview questions, how to drive traffic to your blog, search company interview" border="0" height="193" src="http://bis-confidencecoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/interview-kentoh-canstock.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How to answer tough interview questions intelligently</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">&nbsp;I was once interviewed for a job at a well-known search company. One of the five people who interviewed me asked a question that resulted in an hour-long discussion: <br /><br />"<b>Explain how you would develop a frequency-sorted list of the ten thousand most-used words in the English language.</b>"<br /><br />Now, ask yourself: How will you go about answering this question?<br /><br />My initial response was to assail the assumptions underlying the problem. Language is a fluid thing, I argued. It changes in real time. Vocabulary and usage patterns shift day-to-day. To develop a list of words and their frequencies means taking a snapshot of a moving target. Whatever snapshot you take today isn't going to look like the snapshot you take tomorrow -- or even five minutes from now.</div><a name='more'></a><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So the first question is: Where do we get our sample of words from? Is this about spoken English, or written English? Two different vocabularies with two different frequency patterns. But again, each is mutable, dynamic, fluid, protean, changing minute by minute, day by day.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Suppose we limit the problem to written English. How will we obtain a "representative sampling" of English prose? It should be obvious that there is no such thing. There is no "average corpus." Think about it.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My interviewer wanted to cut the debate short and move on to algorithms and program design, but I resisted, pointing out that problem definition is extremely important; you can't rush into solving a problem before you understand how to pose it.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Let's assume," my inquisitor said, "that the Web is a good starting place: English web-pages." I tormented my tormentor some more, pointing out that it's dangerous to assume spiders will crawl pages in any desirable (e.g., random) fashion, and anyway, some experts believe "deep Web content" (content that's either uncrawlable or has never been crawled before) constitutes the majority of online content -- so again, we're not likely to obtain any kind of "representative" sample of English words, if there even is such a thing as a representative sample of the English language (which I firmly maintain there is not).</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By now, my interviewer was clearly growing impatient with my petulence, so he asked me to talk about designing a program that would obtain a sorted list of 10,000 most-used words. I dutifully regurgitated the standard crawl/canonicalize/parse/tally sorts of things that you'd typically do in such a program.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"How would you organize the words in memory?" my tormentor demanded to know.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"A big hash table," I said. "Just hash them right into the table and bump a counter at each spot."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"How much memory will you need?"</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"What've you got?" I smiled.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"No, seriously, how much?" he said.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I said assuming 64-bit hardware and software, maybe something like 64 gigs: enough memory for a 4-billion-slot array of 16 bytes of data per slot. Most words will fit in that space, and a short int will suffice for a counter in each slot. (Longer words can be hashed into a separate smaller array.) Meanwhile you're using 32 bits (64 available; but you're only using 32) of address space, which is enough to hash words of length 7 or less with no collisions at all. (The typical English word has entropy of about 4.5 bits per character.) Longer words entail some risk of hash collision, but with a good hash function that shouldn't be much of a problem.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"What kind of hash function would you use?" the interviewer asked.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"I'd try a very simple linear congruential generator, for speed," I said, "and see how it performs in terms of collisions."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He asked me to draw the hash function on the whiteboard. I scribbled some pseudocode that looked something like:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">HASH = INITIAL_VALUE;</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">FOR EACH ( CHAR IN WORD ) {</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">HASH *= MAGIC_NUMBER</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">HASH ^= CHAR</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">HASH %= BOUNDS</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">}</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">RETURN HASH</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I explained that the hash table array length should be prime, and the BOUNDS number is less than the table length, but coprime to the table length. Good possible values for the MAGIC_NUMBER might be 7, 13, or 31 (or other small primes). You can test various values until you find one that works well.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"What will you do in the event of hash collisions?" the professor asked.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"How do you know there will be any?" I said. "Look, the English language only has a million words. We're hashing a million words into a table that can hold four billion. The load factor on the table is negligible. If we're getting collisions it means we need a better hash algorithm. There are plenty to choose from. What we ought to do is just run the experiment and see if we even get any hash collisions. "</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Assume we do get some. How will you handle them?"</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Well," I said, "you can handle collisions via linked lists, or resize and rehash the table -- or just use a cuckoo-hash algorithm and be done with it."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This led to a whole discussion of the cuckoo hashing algorithm (which, amazingly, my inquisitor -- supposedly skilled in the art -- had never heard of).</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This went on and on for quite a while. We eventually discussed how to harvest the frequencies and create the desired sorted list. But in the end, I returned to my main point, which was that sample noise and sample error are inevitably going to moot the results. Each time you run the program you're going to get a different result (if you do a fresh Web crawl each time). Word frequencies are imprecise; the lower the frequency, the more "noise." Run the program on September 10, and you might find that the word "terrorist" ranks No. 1000 in frequency on the Web. Run it again on September 11, and you might find it ranks No. 100. That's an extreme example. Vocabulary noise is pervasive, though, and at the level of words that rank No. 5000+ (say) on the frequency list, the day-to-day variance in word rank for any given word is going to be substantial. It's not even meaningful to talk about precision in the face of that much noise. I am posting this here to see if this will drive some sort of attention and traffic to this blog post and get more unique visitors to the blog-- let us find out!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyway, whether you agree with my analysis or not, you can see that a question like this can lead to a great deal of discussion in the course of a job interview, cutting across a potentially large number of subject domains. It's a question that leads naturally to more questions. And that's the best kind of question to ask in an interview. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-8293607128441389592011-05-24T05:11:00.002-11:002011-05-24T05:16:44.428-11:00Making summer vacation plans?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-754VIDEeBSo/TdvYbatpzeI/AAAAAAAABMk/rBXaz7fob_I/s1600/camping-billboard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="End of days, May 21, 2011, Harold Camping, William Miller, Biblical phrases twisted, End of day predictios, 153 days from May" border="0" height="197" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-754VIDEeBSo/TdvYbatpzeI/AAAAAAAABMk/rBXaz7fob_I/s320/camping-billboard.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The question is -- Did he come; is he invisible?</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;">Ok -- how many of you know about Harold Camping's Doomsday prediction that on May 21, 2011, the world will end? Does he remind you of William Miller, a farmer and self-taught biblical scholar from NY who pinned the end of days on 1874? How many of you know that the end of days dates have already moved 5 times? From 1874 to 1914 and then to 1925, 1941 and 1975?<br /><br />Some reasons why Harold Camping is wrong:<br />1. He has done this before and was wrong<br />2. His Calculations are Un-biblical<br />3. His Biblical understanding is completely off <br />4. He denies that Jesus is God</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">5. Camping does not preach the Gospel</span></div><a name='more'></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--FABO0dot3k/TdvXV-7cxQI/AAAAAAAABMg/FBb-Aq2foYk/s1600/may-21-2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="End of days, May 21, 2011, Harold Camping, William Miller, Biblical phrases twisted, End of day predictios, 153 days from May" border="0" height="160" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--FABO0dot3k/TdvXV-7cxQI/AAAAAAAABMg/FBb-Aq2foYk/s320/may-21-2011.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of the save the day campaigns</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I also hear versions where the world is supposed to end 153 days from May 21, 2011.&nbsp; Believe it or not, a lot of people are talking about it. So, the question is: Are you summer vacation plans? Are you saving up for the house you want to buy in 2012? Are you planning to come watch London Olympics 2012? (There may not be one!)</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Read more here:<br />Source: http://beginningandend.com/may-21-2011-is-it-really-the-end-of-the-world/</span></div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-9684420123863538492011-05-17T07:37:00.003-11:002011-05-17T09:47:51.786-11:00Statement from Osama Bin Laden's family<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"I, Omar Ossama Binladin and my brothers the lawful children and heirs of the Ossama Binladin (OBL) have noted wide coverage of the news of the death of our father, but we are not convinced on the available evidence in the absence of dead body, photographs, and video evidence that our natural father is dead. Therefore, with this press statement, we seek such conclusive evidence to believe the stories published in relation to 2 May 2011 operation Geronimo as declared by the President of United States Barrack Hussein Obama in his speech that he authorized the said operation and killing of OBL and later confirmed his death.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If OBL has been killed in that operation as President of United States has claimed then we are just in questioning as per media reports that why an unarmed man was not arrested and tried in a court of law so that truth is revealed to the people of the world. If he has been summarily executed then, we question the propriety of such assassination where not only international law has been blatantly violated but USA has set a very different example whereby right to have a fair trial, and presumption of innocence until proven guilty by a court of law has been sacrificed on which western society is built and is standing when a trial of OBL was possible for any wrongdoing as that of Iraqi President Sadam Hussein and Serbian President Slobodan Miloševic'. We maintain that arbitrary killing is not a solution to political problems and crime's adjudication as Justice must be seen to be done.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is also unworthy of the special forces to shoot unarmed female family members of Binladen killing a female and that of one of his son.</div><a name='more'></a><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Most importantly, when it is a common knowledge that OBL's family is residing at one place outside KSA, why they were not contacted to receive his dead body. His sudden and un witnessed burial at sea has deprived the family of performing religious rights of a Muslim man.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Finally, now that the operation is concluded we wish the Government of Pakistan to release and hand over all minors of the family and all the family members are reunited at one place and are repatriated to their country of origin, especially female members of the family to avoid further oppression and we seek international support to that effect. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Without agreeing to the ways of OBL as to how he professed, believed and operated, We Omar Ossama Binladin, and my brothers, the lawful children of the Ossama Binladin (OBL) herewith demand an inquiry under UNO to reach to the accuracy of the facts as stated by United States into the fundamental question as to why our father was not arrested and tried but summarily executed without a court of law. We are putting these questions to the United Nations, OIC, President of United States that a necessary evidence is presented to the family in private and or public to make us believe what they claim, and all the remaining family members are repatriated and united after necessary initial investigation.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In making this statement, we want to remind the world that Omar Ossam Binladin, the fourth-born son of our father, always disagreed with our father regarding any violence and always sent messages to our father, that he must change his ways and that no civilians should be attacked under any circumstances.&nbsp; Despite the difficulty of publicly disagreeing with our father, he never hesitated to condemn any violent attacks made by anyone, and expressed sorrow for the victims of any and all attacks.&nbsp; As he condemned our father, we now condemn the president of the United States for ordering the execution of unarmed men and women.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Failure to answer these questions will force us to go to International forum for justice such as International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice and UN must take notice of the violation of international law and assist us to have answers for which we are lawful in seeking them. A panel of eminent British and international lawyers is being constituted and a necessary action may be taken if no answers are furnished within 30 days of this statement."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Credit: As published on NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/world/asia/binladen-statement.html?_r=3</div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-64497842618725945892011-05-12T04:49:00.000-11:002011-05-13T09:36:07.520-11:00Jacob Lusk - God bless the child<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sbBVkx7LTsY/TcwCg5IE1hI/AAAAAAAABMc/SqcquDF_qlA/s1600/JacobLusk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Jacob Lusk, God bless the child, American idol 2011, hollywood week auditions, Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler, Gospel singer on American idol" border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sbBVkx7LTsY/TcwCg5IE1hI/AAAAAAAABMc/SqcquDF_qlA/s200/JacobLusk.jpg" width="153" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacob Lusk</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jacob Lusk is a college drop out with a dream. He is a gospel singer with strong faith in the god above. It really shows in his rendition of 'God Bless the Child'. Too bad he was voted off the show last week as America chose to keep Lauren Alaina, Scotty McCreery, Haley Reinhart and James Durbin.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Funny thing: Watch Randy Jackson's reaction at the end along with Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez<br />.<br />Watch!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowFullScreen='true' webkitallowfullscreen='true' mozallowfullscreen='true' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/eUnMd5Zt3MY?feature=player_embedded' FRAMEBORDER='0' /></div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-29808197281000260282011-05-10T08:55:00.001-11:002011-05-25T12:36:38.532-11:00Growing wealth divide in Stockholm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">According to new figures from Statistics Sweden (SCB) and compiled at the request of Sveriges Radio (SR); some key facts:<br />1) Of Sweden's 100 wealthiest areas, 96 are located in Stockholm County.<br />2) 21 of the 100 poorest areas are also located in and around the Swedish capital.<br />3) The income difference between the poorest and wealthiest areas has increased.<br />4) In the 100 postal codes where people earned the most in 2009, monthly incomes averaged 22,000 ($3,500) kronor more than they were ten years ago. Monthly incomes only increased by an average of 2,000 kronor in Sweden's 100 poorest areas during the same time period.</span></div><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Firstly, societal divisions have increased. That leads to an increase in housing segregation," Bo Malmberg, a professor of cultural geography at Stockholm University, told Sveriges Radio. "Where you see this most clearly is in the big cities like Stockolm; that's where the high earners go. And the reason is that it's here where the market is largest and you can earn really big money." According to Malmberg, the rich have a "strong tendency to stick together", leading them to live in the midst of other wealthy residents.<br /><br />Twenty of Sweden's 100 wealthiest postal codes can be found in the Stockholm suburb of Bromma where most residents between 30 and 64-years-old earn around 50,000 kronor per month.<br /><br />According to Bromma estate agent Mikael All, it's "not possible" to buy a family home for less than 9 million Swedish kronor (SEK), that is almost like 900,000 GBP. So, it is not just Great Britain that has a wealth divide, a country which is famous for trying to keep everyone the same and happy has a wealth divide too. This is not exactly an eye-opener to a LOT of people, but those who are under the impression that everything is 'awesome' and equality is practised perfectly in Scandinavia, wake up!</span></div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-8855861717980736862011-05-10T08:47:00.001-11:002011-05-25T12:37:03.907-11:00Is being gay a sin?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are you ready to get a load of this? </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XgpZr3GLDKk/TcmVHnbcbKI/AAAAAAAABMY/TTWT2w8LNRM/s1600/Being+gay+is+a+sin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Kalla Fakta, Frälsnings armén, Frälsningsarmén, Being gay is a sin, Håll grytan kokande, TV4, Swedish Salvation Army" border="0" height="203" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XgpZr3GLDKk/TcmVHnbcbKI/AAAAAAAABMY/TTWT2w8LNRM/s400/Being+gay+is+a+sin.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Swedish Salvation Army poster: Keep the pot boiling</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An undercover journalist from Swedish TV4’s Kalla Fakta (‘Cold Facts’) investigative news programme used a hidden camera to record his conversation with a leader from one of the country’s Salvation Army (Frälsningsarmén) chapters. “The Salvation Army’s basic position is that homosexual sex is a sin. A man shouldn’t sleep with a man in the way he sleeps with a woman,” the chapter leader told the TV4 reporter in a programme broadcast on May 8, Sunday evening.<br /><br />Another chapter leader asked God to help free the reporter from his homosexuality. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />In an email to TV4, Salvation Army representatives said the exchange was likely due to “a few personal views from a few chapter leaders”. </span> <span style="font-size: small;">In subsequent email messages, Kalla Fakta pressed the Salvation Army to explain why the Junior Soldier’s Promise lesson book includes passages saying that children and young people should learn that homosexuality is wrong.<br /><br />The Salvation Army responded that the material is “outdated in its entirety and is in the process of being reviewed and updated”. </span> <span style="font-size: small;">According to Kalla Fakta, the Salvation Army developed an ethics document in 1996 which established that people who live as homosexuals can’t be soldiers in the Salvation Army.<br /><br />The document was changed this year and no longer includes the text about homosexuality.</span> </div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-67406034621380345782011-05-10T07:05:00.002-11:002011-05-25T12:37:35.009-11:00Snoop Dogg feat. Guetta - Sweat - Lyrics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How does anyone name a song 'Sweat' and make it work? Ask Snoop Dogg, David Guetta and they will give you a wicked beat, shoot a video with a LOT of hot girls and show you how it is done!</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KnEXrbAQyIo" width="560"></iframe></span><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the lyrics to the song.</span></div><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Big Snoop Dogg<br />Can you be my doctor?<br />Can you fix me up?<br />Can you wipe me down?<br />So I can lick you up give it up give it up<br />Til' you say my name<br />Like a Jersey Jersey shuttin' down the game<br />Be my head coach<br />So you can put me in<br />And never take me out<br />Till you can taste the way<br />Do it again, and again till you say my name<br />And by the way<br />I'm so glad that you came<br />I just wanna make you sweat<br />I wanna make you sweat<br />I just wanna make you sweat<br />I wanna make you sweat<br />Sweat, sweat<br />Drip drip drip for me mommy can you drip drip drip<br />(... leakin')<br />Drip drip drip for me mommy can you drip drip drip<br />(... leakin')<br />(Its the... ?)<br />She's hot on a rainy day<br />Don't drown<br />Call call me up, I I I can save you now<br />(Lick your feet and kiss your lap)<br />(Swisher sweet I got your wrap)<br />There's only one way we can stop the drought<br />Come with me<br />We can take a trip down south<br />I can tell she's thirsty<br />I'm in the hole like a birdy<br />Whatcha wanna do tonight?<br />It's still early<br />Wanna get some tonight<br />She's all sturdy<br />I'm in I'm in<br />Like a cigarette<br />She wanna quit<br />But she wanna make it...<br />I just wanna make you sweat<br />I wanna make you sweat<br />I just wanna make you sweat<br />I wanna make you sweat<br />Sweat, sweat<br />Drip drip drip for me mommy can you drip drip drip<br />(... leakin')<br />Drip drip drip for me mommy can you drip drip drip<br />(... leakin')<br />Can you, can you get me up like I'm late for my first class<br />So I can give it to you rough like a first draft<br />Hold you like a paper plane<br />You know I got paper babe<br />Eff Them dollar bills<br />Girl I'll make it rain<br />Holiday Inn<br />Come and meet me on my eighth floor<br />Damn it feels good but I feel bad for (them next door)<br />And I, I I I apologize<br />When I slip slip slip like two girls into slip n' slide<br />(There's a flood in your heart love)<br />Girl, let me pop up in your hot tub<br />Every night every day,<br />Sippin' on a different drink<br />Different chicks, different tastes<br />I do it different ways<br />Where you goin?<br />Whatcha say?<br />I'm why her river flowin'<br />To another lake<br />By to ocean by the ocean<br />On the beach on the beach<br />I'm bout' to take a swim<br />Let me dip my feet in and make you sweat<br />I wanna make you sweat<br />I just wanna make you sweat<br />I wanna make you sweat<br />Sweat, sweat<br />Drip drip drip for me mommy can you drip drip drip<br />(... leakin')<br />Drip drip drip for me mommy can you drip drip drip<br />(... leakin')</span></div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-41938090486223306122011-05-10T06:36:00.000-11:002011-05-10T06:36:50.511-11:00When Mike caught me in the Gym<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Mu-cAJBC_K8/Tcl3gCGFvcI/AAAAAAAABMU/GbZVBIfIVzk/s1600/funnny+joke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="326" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Mu-cAJBC_K8/Tcl3gCGFvcI/AAAAAAAABMU/GbZVBIfIVzk/s400/funnny+joke.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-26661566308995950232011-05-10T00:36:00.004-11:002011-05-10T03:31:28.778-11:00Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 Bn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Surprised? Well, I sure am.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xsM4xru7wBU/Tcki1GzA61I/AAAAAAAABMQ/BJqROfs_xmY/s1600/Skype-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="$8.5Bn, Bing, free data link calls, Internet telephony, Lync, Microsoft buys Skype, Microsoft Online services, Microsoft Telecommunications, Skype, who owns Skype now" border="0" height="192" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xsM4xru7wBU/Tcki1GzA61I/AAAAAAAABMQ/BJqROfs_xmY/s320/Skype-007.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Courtesy: David Loh/Reuters</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Skype has been recording losses of about $686 M in the last year and has not been profitable for a few years now. Skype is seen as a threat by all mobile operators as it is a way to call across countries through data link for free. Now, with the new development, I am not so sure the "Skype <b>free</b>dom" is going to continue.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Microsoft's online service has only loss making history with Lync and Bing being recorded as losses. Bing is in loss since 2005. I am not sure what Microsoft has been thinking ever since they offered to buy Yahoo for $48Bn in 2007. Some screws are coming off, but this move of acquiring Skype along with their losses beats me. Sure, Microsoft Telecommunications now have a new internet telephony tool to their armory -- but did they need it?</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">&nbsp;Has Skype ever recorded a profitable year? Yes - before 2005. Is that enough reason to buy Skype? Only Microsoft knows. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">So, who owns Skype now? Microsoft Online Services.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Why Microsoft online services, why?</span></div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-62049549294475392652011-05-08T02:02:00.002-11:002011-05-09T03:51:05.907-11:00BodyPopping Michael Moral<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vHR_k2E4a8s/TcbEjDkvwTI/AAAAAAAABL0/1uqkofatsQw/s1600/michael+moral.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="BGT 2011, Bodypopping, Britain's Got Talent 2011, French dancer in Britain's got talent, Haspop, Michael Moral, Razi gogonea" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vHR_k2E4a8s/TcbEjDkvwTI/AAAAAAAABL0/1uqkofatsQw/s1600/michael+moral.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">When I saw Haspop, I thought he was good --- and in comes Razi Gogonea. Now, Michael Moral -- he is definitely one of the best I've ever seen. Now, Razi Gogonea has got a stiffer challenge in the competition.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowFullScreen='true' webkitallowfullscreen='true' mozallowfullscreen='true' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/3syr7Vno4r8?feature=player_embedded' FRAMEBORDER='0' /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">21-year-old dance teacher Michael watches Britain's Got Talent on YouTube in his home country of France and has always dreamed of having the opportunity of performing for the Royal Family. Making the long trip to Birmingham from the south of France - Michael has come, along with his translator, to share his incredible dancing moves with the judges. After just a few seconds of bumps and grinds, it's clear that Michael knows how to move! Will his journey to Britain, in the hopes that he'll be able to perform his fantastic talent at the Royal Variety, be dashed or will his cool moves win over the British crowd?</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">But will he be accepted by the public? Will Britons vote for a French guy for the winner of Britain's Got Talent? Either way, this is proof that France has got talent! =)</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com0Westminster, London, UK51.5001524 -0.1262361999999939151.322796399999994 -0.39052969999999393 51.6775084 0.1380573000000061tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-57954018398075236802011-05-04T05:27:00.001-11:002011-05-04T05:28:08.042-11:00FarmVille for real!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>National Trust's Wimpole Home Farm seeks online farmers</b><br />A National Trust farm is to be run by online subscribers voting on which crops to grow and livestock to rear. For a £30 annual fee, 10,000 farm followers will help manage Wimpole Home Farm, in Cambridgeshire. The National Trust says its MyFarm project aims to reconnect people with where their food comes from.<br /><br />It was partly inspired by the online Facebook game Farmville and follows the example of Ebbsfleet Football Club which is run on a similar basis. Decisions about the running of the team in Kent has been in the hands of MyFootballClub subscribers since 2008.</span></div><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Monthly decisions</b><br />Wimpole Home Farm, which is converting to organic, is currently commercially self-sustaining. The 1,200 acre site is home to rare breeds of sheep, cattle, poultry, horses and goats and produces meat, eggs, wheat and oil seed rape. Subscribers will be expected to make key decisions on which crops to plant, which animals to buy and whether to put in measures such as new hedgerows to help wildlife. They will be asked to make 12 major monthly decisions during the course of the year as well as other choices. The options put to members will be within parameters dictated by climate, legislation, and the requirements of the environmental stewardship scheme which the farm is signed up to, as well as the heritage protection given to the estate.<br /><br />The MyFarm website will feature video updates, webcams, information about farming and expert opinion and subscribers will also be entitled to a family ticket to visit the site.</span><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Credit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13276102</i></span></div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639319035130567521.post-28497199244670660972011-05-03T18:42:00.000-11:002011-05-03T18:42:06.784-11:00Osama bin laden fake death photo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Well, this image has been circulating as the picture of Osama Bin Laden's dead body.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TyynyCFMdMU/TcDlfg8tR5I/AAAAAAAABLs/ws6Y7pjOAmA/s1600/osama_bin_laden_dead0001_66.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Osama Bin laden dead May 2011, Fake death photo, Osama Bin laden death photo hoax, superimposed death photo of Osama bin laden" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TyynyCFMdMU/TcDlfg8tR5I/AAAAAAAABLs/ws6Y7pjOAmA/s1600/osama_bin_laden_dead0001_66.jpg" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Osama Bin Laden - alleged death photo 2011</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Well, it apparently is not real. It was superimposed on another image of someone with similar wounds. This is the actual image: </span></div><a name='more'></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sQyDzccP2Nw/TcDlghbKJzI/AAAAAAAABLw/OBHaOHIakHQ/s1600/osama-bin-laden-death-photo-fake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Osama Bin laden dead May 2011, Fake death photo, Osama Bin laden death photo hoax, superimposed death photo of Osama bin laden" border="0" height="238" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sQyDzccP2Nw/TcDlghbKJzI/AAAAAAAABLw/OBHaOHIakHQ/s320/osama-bin-laden-death-photo-fake.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Osama Bin Laden - Fake death photo, a hoax</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Well, now you know that this image was indeed a hoax and a fake death photo of Osama Bin Laden.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div></div>Ravi Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690013612983987763noreply@blogger.com2